Other conditions decisions — 2006

The veteran seeks service connection for prostatitis. The VA examiner found no current prostate disability, but the examination report is inadequate. Additional development including a new VA examination and obtaining private medical records are required.

The Board has decided to remand the case for further development due to the need for a VA examination and review of the claim.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for Waldenstrom's macroglobinemia, finding that there was no evidence to support a relationship between his current condition and his military service.

The VA denied an increased rating for the veteran's service-connected skin condition of the feet, finding that it does not meet the criteria for a higher rating under current disability evaluation guidelines.

The VA denied the veteran's claims for increased evaluations of her B12 deficiency and endometriosis, finding that new and material evidence had not been presented to reopen these previously denied claims.

The Board found that the cause of the veteran's death, dissiminated gastric carcinoma, was not related to his period of service and denied the claim for service connection.

The Board has remanded the case due to an informal claim for exclusion of a child's income based on hardship and other issues related to the appellant's daughter's social security income.

The Board has ordered additional records to be obtained and a medical opinion to be provided in order to determine if the VA erred in not diagnosing the veteran's pancreatic cancer prior to June 2001, which may have caused or hastened his death. The case will then be readjudicated.

The Board has determined that the veteran's osteochondroma, left scapula does not warrant an increased rating beyond the current 20 percent assigned.

The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for heat rash, a rash on the chest and face, athletes foot, and chronic organic disability as a residual of radiation exposure. The evidence submitted since the prior denial does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate these claims.

The RO reduced the veteran's rating for adenocarcinoma of the prostate from 100 percent to 40 percent, effective July 1, 2004. The reduction was upheld as appropriate given the current status of his condition.

The Board has remanded the case due to a need for VCAA compliance and additional development of evidence.

The Board dismissed the appeal because no timely substantive appeal was filed on the 2003 denial of an earlier effective date for TDIU.

The Board denied revising a February 25, 1971 rating decision on the basis of CUE and denying assigning an effective date prior to September 26, 1997 for an award of TDIU. The errors identified did not manifestly change the outcome.

The veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of private medical expenses incurred from August 29, 2003 to September 25, 2003 was denied as VA did not provide prior authorization and the care provided was not emergency treatment.

The Board has determined that the appellant's spouse did not have qualifying service for VA benefits, and thus her claim of basic eligibility is denied.

The veteran's claim was dismissed due to their death, and no service connection issues were raised.

The veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability, and he did not meet the criteria for DEA benefits.

The veteran's paroxysmal tachycardia was previously rated as noncompensable, but a June 2004 rating decision proposed to decrease the evaluation from 10 percent to noncompensable. The October 2004 rating decision decreased the evaluation to noncompensable effective February 1, 2005.,From February 1, 2005 onwards, a compensable (10%) evaluation was granted for paroxysmal tachycardia.

The Board found that the veteran's TMJ dysfunction was not related to an in-service disease or injury and denied his claim for service connection.